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Fastest boot settings possible

sotiris_bos
Level 7
I have a Maximus VI Formula, a 4770K @4.2GHz and a Samsung 840 Pro SSD. I want to have the lowest possible boot time. I have set MRC Fast boot to enabled, Fast boot to enabled and Hardware fast boot to enabled. Are there any other options to tweak? I noticed that the boot frequency of the cpu is set to: maximum non-turbo frequency and the first boot device is windows boot manager and then my SSD in second. Should I change something in my settings? I am running Windows 8.
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Arne_Saknussemm
Level 40
The boot settings are fine like that.

You can speed up the boot process if you disable some of the onboard devices you don't use. For instance I am not using bluetooth, usb 3.0, or my AS media SATA connections so I disable all those in the BIOS.....

chrsplmr
Level 18
Welcome to ROG.

For the very fastest boot .. within 3 seconds, I put the computer to sleep.
Hit the space bar and your back in business in less than 3 seconds.c.

chrsplmr wrote:
Welcome to ROG.

For the very fastest boot .. within 3 seconds, I put the computer to sleep.
Hit the space bar and your back in business in less than 3 seconds.c.


Not if you have to login Bro 😛

Myk SilentShadow wrote:
Not if you have to login Bro 😛


Human intervention ruins EVERYTHING! 😉
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Myk SilentShadow wrote:
Not if you have to login Bro 😛


hahhaha .. If you had a log on, the additional 3 seconds would be there with Any boot then ..
This is always the oddest question to me .. some systems with SSD's and limited startup items
boot in as little as 20-30 seconds. What could possibly so urgent as to need to be in faster than that ?
[Other than of course repeatedly needing to re-boot while benching, can get monotonous.]

Still if you are in and out or need your computer ready quickly it is hard to beat simply putting the
system to sleep and just hit the space bar .. whether it is 3 seconds or 10 with a really long password,
which a 'time freak' would never use anyway.

This is also helpful if you are working on applications that you must leave or researching on the internet,
haven't been able to get to all of the 'tabs' you have open and get called away.
Your system must be quite stable for this to work flawlessly and 'happy' memory is a must have.

chrisnyc75: hahahhaa .. that's the truth. One day we may have that internet computer chip link embedded
in our brain, or wear it like a blue tooth and just think and ye shall receive.
But then Google will be beaming 'ads' in there too .. or worse .. Government propaganda/indoctrination.c.

Classic_GOD
Level 10
Instal Win8.1 64Bit in UEFI mode, disable legacy USB, disable USB Initialization, Enable FastBoot and Hardware Fast Boot, set drive initialization to Boot Drive only, disable uefi network initialization, disable CSM, get a fast SSD (840 Pro is fast, I use 840 Evo) = boot under 10s (and that is for OS with all the startup apps, not a clean OS).

Poco_OM
Level 10
Depends which side your case is on, in my case it will be the left boot that is the quickest. 🙂

CharFlo88
Level 7
click on start and type in msconfig. click on the boot tab and then click on advanced options. check the box for number of processors and set it to the max processors you have. i find that this helps boot faster on some systems. having an a good ssd is really fast though already...

sotiris_bos
Level 7
I do have a password but I have set it to log in automatically on power up or wake up so I don't have to deal with that. I'm satisfied now that I have hardware fast boot enabled.